Eastern North Carolina offers waterfowlers the best chance to hunt a variety of divers, puddlers and sea ducks.
With its large and small waterways, three massive brackish-water sounds, expansive swamps — such as those found along the Roanoke, Neuse and Tar river flood plains — and beaver ponds, counties east of I-95 present waterfowlers more opportunities to fill a six-duck limit with a variety of birds than any region of the state.
“Inland, we kill a lot of mallards and wood ducks, blue-winged and green-winged teal, bluebills, canvasbacks and redheads,” said guide Clark Purvis of Hobgood, who hunts from Currituck Sound to the mouth of the Neuse River, including the Pungo.
His sea duck bags include greater and lesser scaup (bluebills), surf scoters and old squaw.
When he’s not after ducks, Purvis also sets up decoys at fields for snow geese, Canada geese and tundra swans.
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